There are plenty of services out there that let you run price comparisons on your cell phone – smarter.com, shopper.com, and Price Grabber mobile.But Frucall, recently out of beta and in shiny, version 2.0 digs, gives you more options and flexibility than the competition. With Frucall, you can compare product prices via voice, SMS text…
Archives for 2007
O2 goes green; Pays customers NOT to upgrade their phones
Imagine a carrier that urges it’s customers NOT to upgrade their phone? Now I’ve seen everything. O2 has partnered with Energy Saving Trust and is now pushing its subscribers to wait with their phone upgrades. Furthermore, they are actually giving customers a credit worth of $210 to do so. Of course, users are required to…
Motorola opens Global Flagship Store in New Delhi, India
It’s not just Nokia that has it’s Flagship Stores. Motorola also has its fancy stores in Shanghai and Moscow, and now the American handset maker just opened a new one in New Delhi, India. The opening of the new store in the capital of India was in line with MOTO’s strategy to better penetrate the…
Assembling and disassembling the Nokia E65
Nokia is pushing the E65 as a stylish enterprise device. It’s a leather coated Symbian OS S60-based device that packs all the features of the powerful smartphone, including the built-in WiFi, in the cool-looking slider form factor. Now you can see just how stylish (or not) this device ACTUALLY is from the inside out. Stefan…
All the PDF’s from all the presentaions at the S60 summit are online
I wish Nokia would have recorded these presentations and shared them on their website, but all I have to share are PDF documents. Enjoy! Coverage of the presentations goes up tomorrow.
S60 Summit 2007: Failed PR event according to Richard Bloor
I take offense to comments made about me in this article, but a valid point has been made: Should Nokia have made more announcements at the summit and why wasn’t the event covered in greater detail? The summit wasn’t meant to be a PR launch platform, but a gathering of people in the mobile industry…
Video: Brief coverage of the 6120 Classic
Shot this at the summit:
Mysterious Nokia 3G Phone Appears on FCC
We found this interesting phone on the FCC website today. It’s clearly marked as a Nokia and equipped for WCDMA, but the particularly interesting thing is the FCC documentation outlining both 850 and 1900 Mhz frequencies for WCDMA use – making 3G possible in the US. Aside from those few details, and the outline of…
S60 Summit Day 1: The Prado and Fiesta
S60 Summit Day 0 coverage Rafe didn’t arrive yet, I knew no one in the hotel, what should I do until the S60 Fiesta at 17:00? Go to one of Europe’s finest museums of course! Madrid is a very urban city so it was nice to come across these two trees on my way to…
Iran Wants to Filter “Immoral” Cell Phone Messages
Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry is set to start “filtering” picture, video, and audio messages, by order of The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. The Council wants the Telecommunications Ministry to acquire whatever equipment they will need in order to start filtering MMS messages for “immoral” content. There is no mention on how this “filtering” will…